In the cities in which we live, all of us see hundreds of publicity images every day of our lives.... In no other form of society has there been such a concentration of images, such a density of visual messages (Berger, 1972: 129).
My first image of the Canadian West was from a picture on a calendar in our farmhouse in southern Ontario. The image was of a field of golden wheat blowing in the wind under a sunny and azure sky (Francis, 1989: xv).
A strong corporate image influences the predisposition to buy a company's products, speak favourably of it, believe its statements, apply for a job with it, and the like (Worcester, 1986: 604).
The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation that it becomes an image (Debord, 1977: thesis 34).
With the emergence of a truly spectacular body of experiments, imagery is one of the hottest topics in cognitive science (Block, 1981: 1).
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